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Last house for the Regent
In Amersham-on-the-Hill, 59 years ago this week, 100s of people could be seen queueing down Sycamore Road. They were waiting in line for the Regent box office to buy tickets for the Audrey Hepburn film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Although a popular movie, the high demand for tickets was because the final show, on Saturday 10 March 1962, was to be the last ever screening at the cinema and everyone in the town wanted to be there.
The fate of the cinema had been sealed the previous year when Amersham Council sanctioned the application by British Land for its change of use. The owners of the Regent, Shipman & King, held only a lease on the premises and this had now expired. ....

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